The Gospel by Alicia Keys

So we all got children, products of the ghetto
Momma (1)____________ us soup, daddy did the yelling
Uncle was a drunk, cousin was a felon
When he got pitched, he (2)________ them he wasn't tellin'
Auntie was a cook, her (3)______________ was a crook
Cause (4)__________ job he had (5)________ be payin' him off the books
Ghetto university, knowledge is all it took
In a tenement I was listenin' to the hook
Change gon' come, the spirit of Sam Cook
When the (6)________ comin', everybody get shook
Now we doin' life like (7)__________ (8)____________ and Martin
On the chain gang, I was singing into the coffin

The roaches and the rats, heroin and the cracks
Couldn't blame me, I'm just (9)____________ the facts
Tryna hit the top, the bottom ain't where it's at
Everybody got a (10)________ but you can (11)__________ go back

Sing
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (yeah)...

Tellin' you like it is, how we ever gon' live?
If we ain't gettin' money, how we feedin' the kids?
It's a (12)__________________ door, where (13)________________ be doin' bids
I (14)________ it (15)__________ wrong but the door will be what it is
Survival of the fittest, (16)________ poor girl the illest
Broke (17)______________ and black cats give me heebie-geebies
Life seems hard but nothin' (18)________ (19)__________ easy
Whatever's in the dark, can always become the light
If you ain't in a battle, how you gon' win the fight?
Gotta (20)__________ the truth when I'm up in the booth
The streets be flyin' birds but they don't be on the roof
Poverty is a pain (21)________ you pullin' a tooth
Told the streets don't let me go like I'm (22)____________ in Juice

The (23)______________ and the rats, heroin and the cracks
Couldn't blame me, I'm (24)________ giving the facts
Tryna hit the top, the (25)____________ ain't where it's at
Everybody got a (26)________ but you can never go back

Sing
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (yeah)

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